Description
This checklist is the medicinal plants from Gabon. It is an output of the BID-AF2020-194-USE project. Data on medicinal plants are important to best support decision-makers and users. The key policy questions and data challenges that the project is addressing to increase the uptake of primary biodiversity data into decision making processes is focused on the following question: What species are used as medicinal plants in Gabon? To answer this question, a list of medicinal plants has been compiled from the book “Les plantes utiles du Gabon” (Raponda Walker & Roger Sillans 1965). A taxonomic update of the scientific names taken from this book has been treated. Therefore, this list includes the correct scientific names, vernacular names and uses that can be medicinal, cosmetic and mystico-magic.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 925 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Bissiengou P, Mboma R, Mba Nzuè M-T, Engone Obiang NL (2023): Gabon medicinal plants. v1.2. Herbier National du Gabon. Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt-gabon.gbif.fr/resource?r=medecinal-plants&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Herbier National du Gabon. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4. Herbier National du Gabon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Checklist; Medicinal; Gabon
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Geographic Coverage
This data come from Gabon
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-3.996, 8.789], North East [2.46, 14.678] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
These data represent 114 families of medicinal plants.
| Family | ACANTHACEAE, AGAVACEAE, AMARANTACEAE, AMARYLLIDACEAE, ANACARDIACEAE, ANNONACEAE, APOCYNACEAE, ARACEAE, ASCLEPIADACEAE, BALANOPHORACEAE, BALSAMINACEAE, BEGONIACEAE, BIGNONIACEAE, BIXACEAE, BOMBACACEAE, BORAGINACEAE, BROMELIACEAE, BURSERACEAE, CANNABINACEAE, CANNACEAE, CAPPARIDACEAE, CAPRIFOLIACEAE, CARICACEAE, CARYOPHYLLACEAE, CASUARINACEAE, COMMELINACEAE, ASTERACEAE, CONVOLVULACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, CRUCIFERACEAE, CUCURBITACEAE, CYCADACEAE, CYPERACEAE, DICHAPETALACEAE, DILLENIACEAE, DIOSCOREACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE, EUPHORBIACEAE, FICOIDACEAE, FLACOURTIACEAE, FLAGELLARIACEAE, GNETACEAE, GRAMINEAE, GUTTIFERACEAE, HALORRHAGACEAE, HUMIRIACEAE, HYPERICACEAE, ICACINACEAE, IRIDACEAE, LAURACEAE, LECYTHIDACEAE, LILIACEAE, LINACEAE, LOGANIACEAE, LORANTHACEAE, MALVACEAE, MELIACEAE, MENISPERMACEAE, MUSACEAE, MYRISTICACEAE, MYRTACEAE, NYCTAGINACEAE, NYMPHÉACEAE, OLACACEAE, OLÉACEAE, ORCHIDACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, PALMACEAE, PANDACEAE, PANDANACEAE, PASSIFLORACEAE, PEDALIACEAE, PIPERACEAE, PLOMBAGINACEAE, PODOSTEMONACEAE, POLYGONACEAE, RHAMNACEAE, ROSACEAE, SAPINDACEAE, SAPINDACEAE, SAPOTACEAE, SCYTOPÉTALACEAE, SMILACACEAE, STERCULIACEAE, TILIACEAE, TYPHACEAE, URTICACEAE, VIOLACEAE, ZINGIBERACEAE |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1965-01-01 / 2023-01-01 |
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Project Data
In most African countries the few databases that exist are underused. For instance, specimen data are exploited by researchers only when they are planning field trips. As strategies to transmit relevant information on plant biodiversity to decision-makers are deficient, this project aims to mobilize biodiversity data and categorize them according to their utilization by local populations, their importance in conservation and their commercial use, in order to support their integration into policy and decision-making processes
| Title | Mobilization and use of botanical data as decision-making tools in Gabon |
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| Identifier | BID-AF2020-194-USE |
| Funding | JRS Biodiversity Foundation GBIF |
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Sampling Methods
List of medicinal plants from the book "Plantes Utiles du Gabon".
| Study Extent | GABON |
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| Quality Control | The species matching tool from GBIF was used for scientific name checking. |
Method step description:
- All information was compiled from the book "Plantes Utiles du Gabon"
Bibliographic Citations
- Raponda-Walker, A., & Sillans, R. (1961). Les plantes utiles du Gabon.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4 |
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| https://ipt-gabon.gbif.fr/resource?r=medecinal-plants |